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Post by John Niska on Jan 14, 2012 18:23:10 GMT -5
The year is 2112.
It is a time of strife. The governments of the world have formed alliances giving us geo-political zones like the Pacific Coalition, the Amerizone, and the Russia-European zone. Africa is still unorganized leaving it as a subject of turf wars from the various corporations and governments vying for its resources.
It is a time of achievement. Orbital colonies at Lagrange points, as well as orbiting Mars and the Earth's moon show the continued exploration of space. The space elevator in Brazil provides fast transit to near space.
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Post by John Niska on Jan 14, 2012 20:18:21 GMT -5
Due to the excesses of society, the earth has been ravaged by a number of ecological events. The toxic resevoirs in Canada have overflown their boundaries, the nuclear devastation from the Iran-Israel war, rising sea levels have caused hundreds of millions of displaced people, ecological damage to the water table of many countries due to the unforeseen consequences of hydraulic fracturing, climate change, and disruption of the global sea currents are just a few of the effects that man has caused.
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Post by Kenneth New on Jan 14, 2012 20:35:21 GMT -5
Population
World population has stabilized at about 10 billion people. Regions such as the Pacific rim and South Asia have the majority of the people, but Indonesian, Burmese and Bangladeshi refugees (among others), along with those who've fled the devastation in the Middle East, have flocked to countries around the world.
In most cases, they form a disenfranchised underclass, doing work no one else wants and subsisting off the public dole.
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Post by Kenneth New on Feb 25, 2012 23:38:00 GMT -5
The Environment
Sea levels have risen, innundating coastal areas and displacing billions of people. Centuries of manufacturing, buring fossil fuels, mining and hydraulic fracking have poisoned the water tables and the air. Many parts of the world, even the developed world, lack clean drinking water and air.
Massive reforestation efforts are attempting to counterbalance the damage done to the upper layers of the ocean. Atmospheric oxygen levels continue to drop.
The oceans have long been the source of most of the world's free oxygen. Centuries of abuse have led to algae blooms, jellyfish overpopulation, fish die off and acidification (carbonic acid from increased carbon in the atmosphere) that kills coral and shellfish. Fishing has been replaced with aquaculture in most areas.
In many cities, air pollution gets bad enough on some days to require health advisories. Affluent homes have air filters and positive pressure thresholds. Poorer folks get by with ineffectual surgical masks.
Desertification has begun to affect farmland around the world. Countries like India and China have become food importers and countries like Russia, Ukraine, the USA and Canada have become major food exporters.
New syndromes, such as acid lung (caused by carbonic acid build up in the lungs), STO (systemic toxicity overload, caused by a build up of heavy metals in the body leading to rampant tumor growth) and grayscale, a type of non-lethal flesh eating bacteria that causes disfigurement and pain are common. These illnesses are caused by environmental degredation.
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